MMT debates

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Steve Keen — Bill Mitchell

• It’s Hard Being a Bear (Part Six) Good Alternative Theory? — Steve Keen, Steve Keen's Debtwatch (September 27, 2009)

• In the spirit of debate … — Bill Mitchell, billy blog (September 28, 2009)

• In the spirt of debate … my reply — Bill Mitchell, billy blog (September 30, 2009)

• In the spirit of debate … my reply Part 2 — Bill Mitchell, billy blog (September 30, 2009)

• In the spirit of debate … my reply Part 3 — Bill Mitchell, billy blog (October 1, 2009)

Paul Krugman

Further information: MMT debates/Paul Krugman

• July 15, 2009. Paul Krugman: Deficits saved the world

• July 17, 2010. Paul Krugman: I Would Do Anything For Stimulus, But I Won’t Do That

• July 17, 2010. Paul Krugman: More On Deficit Limits

• March 25, 2011. Paul Krugman: Deficits and the Printing Press

• March 26, 2011. Paul Krugman: A Further Note On Deficits and the Printing Press

• April 21, 2011. Paul Krugman: What Are Taxes For? Hint: they're to pay for stuff

• July 26, 2011. Paul Krugman: The Cult That Is Destroying America

• August 11, 2011. Paul Krugman: Franc Thoughts on Long-Run Fiscal Issues

• August 15, 2011. Paul Krugman: MMT, Again

Warren Mosler, The Center of the Universe (MMT blog)

• Marshall's latest (May 14, 2010)

See comments for discussion of "spending comes before taxing or borrowing."

Robert Murphy (Austrian School)

• MMT Bask — Rober Murphy, Free Advice (April 23, 2011)

• The Upside-Down World of MMT — Robert Murphy, Mises (May 9, 2011

• My Critique of MMT — Rober Murphy, Free Advice (May 9, 2011)

• I just don’t have time to crush Bob Murphy over MMT again — Trader's Crucible (May 9, 2011)

• Final Thoughts on MMT Free Advice (May 11, 2011)

• More on the Upside-Down World of MMT — Edward Harrison, Credit Writedowns (May 12, 2011)

• Final Thoughts on the Austrian School — Cullen Roche. Pragmatic Capitalism (May 11, 2011)

• MMT – an accounting-consistent, operationally-sound theoretical approach — Bill Mitchell. billy blog (August 29, 2011)

• Quick Question for MMTers — Robert Murphy. Free Advice (October 18, 2011)

• Bob Murphy Demands Answers — Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism (October 19, 2011)

Naked Capitalism's Debate on deficits

• Guest Post: Debate on Deficits By DoctoRx (October 26, 2009)

• Debate on Deficits: A Reply from Rob Parenteau (October 27, 2009)

• All Debt is Not Created Equal: Government Debt is NOT the Same as Private Debt By Marshall Auerback (October 28, 2009)

• The choice is between increasing or decreasing aggregate demand By Edward Harrison (October 28, 2009)

John Quiggin

• Some propositions for chartalists — John Quiggin (May 9, 2011)

• Answering John Quiggin's Propositions — Rogue Economist (May 11, 2011)

• Money for nothing? — John Quiggin (October 18th, 2011) (cross posted at facebook)

Matt Rognlie

• The fallacies of MMT — Matt Rognlie (April 29. 2011)

Reviving Economics

• Re-reviewing Chartalism / Neo-Chartalism — Garth Brazelton, Reviving Economics, (July 8, 2010)

• Neo-Chartalism, Part II — Garth Brazelton, Reviving Economics, (July 20, 2010)

• Neo-Chartalism, Part III — Garth Brazelton, Reviving Economics, (July 20, 2010)

Nick Rowe

• Towards a Monetarist theory of Neo-Chartalism — Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (November 4, 2009)

• A question for Modern Monetary Theorists — Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (April 29, 2010)

• Reverse-engineering the MMT model — Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (April 15, 2011)

• Functional Finance vs the Long Run Government Budget Constraint — Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (April 22, 2011)

• Good and bad currency wars — Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (September 08, 2011)

• Unconventional Monetary Policy: From the comments — winterspeak (September 12, 2011)

Trader's Crucible

• Our Story so far… — Trader's Crucible ((May 11, 2011)

Steve Randy Waldman

• Winterspeak wonderland & miraculous Mencius — Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity (January 27, 2009)

• Rob Parenteau gets sectoral balances right — Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity (June 29, 2010)

• The MMT solvency constraint — Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity (March 27, 2011)

• MMT stabilization policy — some comments & critiques — Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity (Thursday, April 7th, 2011)